June 17, 2017
6:28 a.m.
On Jun 16, 2017, at 11:08 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs@pobox.com> wrote:
(because the legacy setup.py command errors out, because the build_sdist hook is missing, because the build_sdist hook errors out...); probably falling back on shutil.copytree.
Ah okay. This is where the disconnect was. I assumed if a project was using a PEP 517 build tool the result of a build_sdist failure (or a build_wheel failure) would be surfacing an error to the end user, not some sort of fallback.